Archive for August, 2005

Apple’s Ipod Beaten by Creative Technology

Creative Technology said Tuesday it has been awarded a patent for a user interface found in its portable media players and in competing devices, such as Apple Computer’s iPod.
The digital entertainment company said that on Aug. 9 it received U.S. Patent No. 6,928,433, described as “automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata.” Creative applied for [...]

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Instant Messenger War: How Yahoo!, Micosoft and AOL Kill Google Talk

Conspiracy theory is a theory seeking to explain a disputed case or matter as a plot by a secret group or alliance rather than an individual or isolated act. How do you think Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL will respond over the launch of Google Talk, instant messenger created by Google. Instant-messaging software from those companies [...]

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42% Bloggers are Splog

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped wondered “how many spam blogs does Google have on their Blogspot server?”. Then he used the following URL: www.blogger.com/redirect/next_blog.pyra?navBar=true which brought him to a random blog each time he accessed it. The result is fantastic: 42% weblog on Google’s Blogspot are Splog.
According to FightSplog.com “Splog” is short for Spam [...]

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Send My Name to Pluto

According to Slasdot.org NASA is preparing to send the New Horizons probe to Pluto. It will be the first earth device to get intimate with the icy planet. And you can be there too – or, at least, your name. NASA is asking everyone to send them their names, which will be attached in the [...]

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Euphoria over WordPress.com

Most of WordPress users are now caught by a feeling of great happiness or euphoria. They are very happy because of WordPress.com, a hosted service provide by the creator of WordPress, the semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. As of late August, WordPress.com is still under beta testing [...]

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Bookmarker: Posts Promotion Automation

Aleksey Gureev again updated his plugin. Now he called it Bookmarker. Bookmarker is simple plug-in which posts bookmarks to your social bookmarks services accounts automatically when you publish entries in WordPress. It is very convenient and efficient to promote your posts all over the web this way in addition to pinging blog repositories. Before now, [...]

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Which is Better for Permalinks: Dashes or Underscores?

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Especially when they are used to [...]

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60% of Chinese Bloggers are Female, What about in Indonesia?

In an interview with BusinessWeek as quoted by BlogHerald.com, Chairman of Blogcn, Hu Zhiguang told that 60% of their blogger are female because “(Chinese) boys and men don’t have time to write very much. Girls are more emotional, more articulate about their feelings. Besides, a lot of boys are busy playing online games.” I don’t [...]

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